Currency history
New Zealand dollar
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- NZD
- Ancestry branch
- Sterling
Its place in the family
All ancestors and descendants ↗New Zealand dollar
This currencyChildren 0
No successor is established here.
Trace its ancestry backward
New Zealand dollar
New Zealand pound
Pound sterling
Frankish denier–livre
Roman solidus–nomisma
Roman as–denarius accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
The story
RBNZ dates decimal changeover to July 10, 1967 at two New Zealand dollars per pound. [1]
Price Order 2044 takes effect on July 10, 1967 and converts covered maximum prices at one dollar per ten shillings, with rounding and a transitional machine-conversion exception. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Reserve Bank of New Zealand museum · Preparing for decimal currency
- New Zealand Price Tribunal · New Zealand Gazette No.43, 6 July 1967 — Price Order No.2044
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“New Zealand dollar.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-14; data version v49. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000509.html